The Mushroom Handbook

Softcover. English. Dover Publications. 1967. ISBN: n/a. 560pp.

Fair condition in softcover.

This handy book by the late Mr. Krieger, America's foremost mycologist, is practically a library in itself. It offers the collector (both experienced and beginning) just about all the information he is likely to need on American mushrooms: their botanical position, mode of growth, structure, physiology, habitat, and ecology, economic importance both as food and as pests, preparation of edible forms (with recipes), varieties of poisonous mushrooms and the poisons involved, cultivation of edible mushrooms, the higher fungi systematically considered, and many special topics like fairy rings and luminosity. Book No: 46687